Lesson 2.2

Services and ingress

Pods come and go, so Services give them a stable address. Ingress is what puts an HTTP route in front of that.

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Overview

What this lesson covers

  • Expose pods with a stable service address
  • Compare ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer
  • Route external HTTP traffic with ingress rules

This lesson sits in Kubernetes Core Objects, part of DevOps with Docker and Kubernetes. It assumes what came before it and leads directly into the next lesson in the module.


In this lesson you will:

  • Expose pods with a stable service address
  • Compare ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer
  • Route external HTTP traffic with ingress rules